Bug#701072: closed by Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by (Re: Bug#701072: ifupdown: failed to overwrite statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: No such file or directory)

2013-02-25 Thread Bob Proulx
Jayen Ashar, Just an FYI about the Debian BTS. There has been a long standing conflict with the use of it. Developers tend to only care about the Unstable track. The BTS is designed around the Unstable track. Bugs are closed when they are fixed in Unstable even if they still exist in Stable.

Bug#701072: closed by Andrew Shadura bugzi...@tut.by (Re: Bug#701072: ifupdown: failed to overwrite statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: No such file or directory)

2013-02-25 Thread Jayen Ashar
Thanks for following up. I know it is difficult to support different versions of packages, but as you say, Debian as an organization supports Stable. Debian suggests that users use the Stable production release. Debian asks users to submit bugs found in packages. I don't mind that this bug has

Bug#701072: ifupdown: failed to overwrite statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: No such file or directory

2013-02-24 Thread Jayen Ashar
we would prefer to use the version from stable, as we have tested it pretty thoroughly. i think this might be an issue with the dependency-based booting. putting .legacy-bootordering in /etc/init.d seems to have worked. here's the contents of my /etc/rcS.d (in case someone can figure out which

Bug#701072: ifupdown: failed to overwrite statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: No such file or directory

2013-02-21 Thread Jayen Ashar
Package: ifupdown Version: 0.6.10 Severity: normal About one in every 1000 boots, I see this error message. I've modified /etc/init.d/networking to run ifup -va and I can see that the file is successfully written for lo, but then fails for eth0, then doesn't attempt to bring up eth1 or wlan0,

Bug#701072: ifupdown: failed to overwrite statefile /etc/network/run/ifstate: No such file or directory

2013-02-21 Thread Andrew Shadura
Hello. On 21 February 2013 11:08, Jayen Ashar j.as...@marathon-targets.com wrote: /etc/network/run is a symlink to /dev/shm/network on tmpfs, as / is mounted read-only. ifupdown 0.6 is basically EOLed and not supported any more, try to update to the version from testing if you can and check if